The act of lovingly packing a balikbayan box and sending it back to loved ones is one way of showing them they are always in their hearts. As a child growing up in the Philippines, I remember one of ...

Piles of stuffed animals, clothes, hangers, towels, decorations — even bird feeders — were neatly gathered in Nita Matheson’s Springfield, Virginia, house last Wednesday. In her garage, flattened ...

Mitch Villaseñor picks up a balikbayan box. Boxes will then be loaded onto a container, driven to California, and shipped to the Philippines. Credit: Pat Nabong As a kid living in Laguna, a province ...

Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sending home “balikbayan” boxes to their loved ones. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Finance have signed the implementing rules and ...

It is quite natural for Filipinos abroad to send a balikbayan box as gifts for friends and family in the Philippines. But some Filipinos in Western Australia are worried about their balikbayan boxes ...

Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has filed a bill that would not only prohibit the opening of balikbayan boxes but would also exempt from all duties and taxes one box per overseas Filipino worker ...